https://grbs.library.duke.edu/issue/feedGreek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies2019-02-26T09:18:38-08:00José M. González and Kent J. Rigsbygrbs@duke.eduOpen Journal Systems<div><div><em>GRBS </em>is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal devoted to the culture and history of Greece from Antiquity to the Renaissance, featuring research on all aspects of the Hellenic world from prehistoric antiquity through the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods, including studies of modern classical scholarship.</div></div>https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16193Mycenaean <i>a-re-se-si</i> and Homeric ἄλεισον Revisited2019-02-26T09:18:35-08:00Eugenio R. Lujánerlujan@ucm.es<p>The Linear B hapax probably denotes a cup (as in Homer) that is made of leather, a technique well documented in the material record.</p>2019-02-26T09:18:34-08:00Copyright (c) 2019 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studieshttps://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16149Polygamy in Greek Views of Persians2019-02-26T09:18:35-08:00Dominique Lenfantdlenfant@unistra.fr<p>Polygamy, rather than being invoked by Greek authors as a disparaging stereotype of Persians universally, was ascribed by Greeks only to certain kings, with most Persians portrayed as monogamous.</p>2019-02-26T09:18:35-08:00Copyright (c) 2019 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studieshttps://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16194Plutarch on Cimon, Athenian Expeditions, and Ephialtes’ Reform (Plut. <i>Cim.</i> 14-17)2019-02-26T09:18:36-08:00Valerij Goušchinvalerii2012@yandex.ru<p>Plutarch’s narrative is credible: two Athenian expeditions to Messene in aid of Sparta, only the first led by Cimon, which leads to a revised chronology of the 460s B.C.</p>2019-02-26T09:18:36-08:00Copyright (c) 2019 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studieshttps://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16172The Outbreak of the Rebellion of Cyrus the Younger2019-02-26T09:18:36-08:00Jeffrey Ropjarop@d.umn.eduXenophon’s chronology (open rebellion in 401) can be confirmed, but he misrepresents the significance of several earlier events in order to portray Artaxerxes II as ignorant of Cyrus' ambitions.2019-02-26T09:18:36-08:00Copyright (c) 2019 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studieshttps://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16157The Frame of the <i>Phaedo</i>2019-02-26T09:18:37-08:00Matthew Hiscockmh354@talktalk.netElements of the narrative frame of Plato’s <em>Phaedo</em> evoke features of the Athenian festival Oschophoria, thus associating Socrates’ death with the commemoration of Theseus’ return from Crete.2019-02-26T09:18:37-08:00Copyright (c) 2019 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studieshttps://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16168How the “Crown Case” Came to Trial and Why2019-02-26T09:18:37-08:00Edwin Carawanecarawan@missouristate.edu<p>Hypereides’ <em>Against Diondas</em>, recently discovered, shows the council reviving an earlier honorific decree that was then challenged, and this suggests the procedures that led to the case against Ctesiphon.</p>2019-02-26T09:18:37-08:00Copyright (c) 2019 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studieshttps://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16207Epicurean Myth Rationalization in Plutarch’s <i>De Latenter Vivendo</i> and Lucretius’ Catalogue of Underworld Torments2019-02-26T09:18:37-08:00Collin Miles Hiltonchilton@brynmawr.edu<p>In urging that the fate of the impious Epicurean is not torture but obscurity such as an Epicurean suffers in life, Plutarch uses but reverses an argument found in Lucretius.</p>2019-02-26T09:18:37-08:00Copyright (c) 2019 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studieshttps://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16090Windows of Curiosity: Eyes and Vision in Plutarch’s <i>De Curiositate</i> (<i>Mor.</i> 515-523)2019-02-26T09:18:38-08:00Julia Doroszewskaj.doroszewska@uw.edu.pl<p>The crucial theme of Plutarch’s essay is the role of sight in curiosity, especially using the metaphor of doors and windows for the eyes of the soul, in keeping with ancient theories about light.</p>2019-02-26T09:18:38-08:00Copyright (c) 2019 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies